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Rajiv Kumar (economist)

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337: 33: 289:, as economic advisor during the reform years of 1991-1994. He has wide experience of having worked in government, academia, industry associations, as well as in international financial institutions. He also served as an independent director on the central boards of the 432:, with the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He was also the chairman of the Atal Innovation Mission with its mandate to establish an innovative eco-system in the country. He served in NITI Aayog until 2022. 466:
on 29 April 2023 as a part of the 2023 Spring Conferment of Decorations. He was conferred the order in recognition of his contributions to strengthening the economic relations between Japan and India.
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Kumar is the writer of several books on India's economy and national security. He is an economic columnist for major Indian publications and is a speaker on the Indian political economy.
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Kumar was appointed senior research program officer, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in Delhi in 1982.
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He is the founding director and Chairman of Pahle India Foundation - a public policy think tank facilitating policy change in India based in
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He returned to ICRIER as the director and Chief Executive in Feb 2006 and continued to be until August 2010.
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Director and Chief Executive of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
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from 1989 to 1991. He served as the Economic Advisor in the Department of Economic Affairs,
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He was then appointed as the Senior Consultant, Bureau of Costs and Prices at the
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He also served as an independent director on the Central Boards of the
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Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Finance, Government of India
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Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
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Agarwala, Ramgopal; Kumar, Rajiv; Shah, Rajesh (2015).
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His earlier stint in government was initially with the
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as a Principal Economist, where he served until 2005.
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Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister
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NITI Aayog
Arvind Panagariya
Suman Bery
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
Confederation of Indian Industry
Asian Development Bank
Ministry of Industries and Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Indian
Alma mater
Delhi University
BA
University of Lucknow
PhD
University of Oxford
DPhil
Economist
economist
vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune
Ministry of Industry
Ministry of Finance
Reserve Bank of India
State Bank of India
St. Stephen college
Ph.D
Lucknow University
Ph.D.
Oxford University

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